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Moussa, Hashemi underline long way for Iraq reconciliation

Cairo, 05 June 2007 (Kuwait News Agency (KUNA))

Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa and visiting Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi were concurrent here Monday evening that there was a long way for national reconciliation in Iraq.

They expressed the views at a joint news briefing following their talks.

"The draft reconciliation presented by the government was a good one and had to be a safety valve for all Iraqis. But, unfortunately, it fell short of expectations. We still have a long way to build a strong Iraqi reconciliation, " the Iraqi vice president said.

Asked why innocent Iraqi prisoners were not freed, al-Hashemi said "There was an agreement on ending this dossier in December 2006, but it did not materialize." "The US administration is reluctant to release those innocents," he said.

He added that a draft amnesty that provided for setting free those innocent detainees was yet to be put in place.

On the other hand, he termed the current situation in Iraq as "very worrisome", predicting that some developments could take place in the foreseeable future.

For his part, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said talks with the Iraqi leader mainly included the latest situation in Iraq.

Asked about Iranian-US dialogue on the situation in Iraq, Moussa said "Dialogue is the active way to calm matters, resolve problems and preclude a military conflict. We hope two-way dialogue will continue in the interest of calmness." He added that the Iraqi standoff was the core concern of all Arab nations and Iraq's neighboring countries, not only that of Iran and the US.

Moussa, Hashemi underline long way for Iraq reconciliation | Iraq Updates

Hi, what are they playing at, up and down from 1260 to 1259 what is the benifite of doing that, this time they only held it at 1259 for one day, we have been at this situation for several days. it is like standing on a ledge saying shall I jump or not, one step forward one step back. If they are trying to confuse us then they are certainly winning. If this thing was supposed to have been signed off nearly 2 weeks ago then they are certainly going at a snails pace to get there. In the other thread it argues for a slow revalue I cannot see that as we have all the various issues to take into account foreign investment, HCL, paying their people their pensions etc, this cannot happen with a slow revalue and anyway we have been seeing one in that its been over three years since the the new currency was introduced. What do you all think?. Plus the fact if they still continue to withdraw the currency at the rate they have been doing there wont be that much left.

Preparations and extensive preparations are underway to hold the conference calendar for the performance of banks for the current year

Luna / 6-5 / Baghdad / The Executive Director of the Association of Banks Iraqi Special Abdelaziz Alhasson that preparations and extensive preparations are underway to hold the conference calendar for the performance of banks for the current year and to discuss the challenges faced in light of the new changes and economic reforms required, in line with the reality stage experienced by the country.
And added that the banking performance is below the required level despite the announcement of the results fantastic achievement profits rewarding unrealistic because banks will cover losses if adopted, the reports said the real need to discuss legal texts Central Bank and Iraqi banks that the way it was translated by these laws still needed to review and complete some shortcomings.
He alluded to the difficulties faced by the Iraqi banks for the debt due to the debtors paid pointing me that the conference will contribute to supporting and enhancing the role of ASEAN through material support and moral support so that they can perform tasks at the bank and before the sectoral supervised as a civil society civil specialized economic affairs / / completed / p u / u p / economic.

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Vice President renews call for activating the role of the Arab League in Iraq

Luna / 6-5 / Cairo / new Tariq Hashemi, Vice President of the Republic invited to activate the role of the Arab League in the framework of the project of reconciliation and national concord.
This came in an exhibition of sovereignty on the evening of yesterday, Monday, with Dr. Amre Moussa, Secretary General of the League of Arab States.

Sovereignty also also met the Prime Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Dr. Ahmed Nazif.
It was engaged in a dialogue between the parties constructive and useful undertaking which a Prime Minister develop the full potential of Egypt in the service of the unity, security and stability of Iraq.
Meanwhile the price of the Vice-President's position Egyptian government and people expressed his high appreciation and affirming at the same time that Iraq's doors are open to our Arab brothers in the field of reconstruction and development and that the security situation should not hinder investment operations. / / Completed / p u / u p / Presidency of the Republic.

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Contracts at 86 billion dinars to implement projects Gaza buildings

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Contracts at 86 billion dinars to implement projects Gaza public buildings

Baghdad-file Press

Concluded the Public Authority for buildings, a reorganization of the Ministry of Construction and Housing, contracts total cost amounted to 86 billion dinars to implement a number of projects public buildings in Baghdad and the governorates within the investment plan for 2007.

And the implementation of these projects include building of the Housing Fund in Baghdad, a building for the reconstruction and engineering services for the establishment of the headquarters of the ministry in the governorates (Wasit, Najaf, Diyala, Nineveh, Kirkuk, Maysan) and the development of the border in Safwan and Basra compound Trebil border, and also the implementation of complementary work to the headquarters of the two-Mansour and staying, and the establishment of many of the border posts and buildings Alcetarat Central, in addition to many of the buildings spe******t, and including Traffic Training Center in Baghdad.

And it is noteworthy that the Ministry of Construction and Housing, through the Public Authority for buildings implementation and supervision on projects public buildings in all governorates, which are within the ministry's plan and has annual Cadres engineering and technical efficient in the application of approved specifications and better management of construction projects.

Source : Press file

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CBI has annonnced holding board of director's meeting on Wednesday Jun
06,2007 at 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by breakeven

CBI has annonnced holding board of director's meeting on Wednesday Jun
06,2007 at 10:30 AM

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As far as I can see, CBI on Abu Dhabi Securities Market website stands for Commercial Bank International.

Originally Posted by bultn

As far as I can see, CBI on Abu Dhabi Securities Market website stands for Commercial Bank International.

Thanks for the correction...looks like it's attracted a frenzy elsewhere...!

Parliament Kurdstan hosts Prime Minister and the Minister for areas outside the region to discuss the stages of the implementation of Article 140
PUKmedia فؤاد عثمان/ اربيل: 22:32:10 2007-06-04PUKmedia Fouad Othman / Irbil : 22:32:10 2007-06-04

.In order to discuss the implementation stages of Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution, Parliament held its Corstan 22 of the second session chaired by Mr. Adnan Mufti, the Speaker of Parliament and the presence of Messrs. Najirfan Barzani, head of the government of the territory, Dr. Kurdstan. Mohammed Ihsan, Minister for areas outside the Territory is a member of the Committee on the implementation of Article 140, where allocated meeting to discuss the stages of the implementation of Article 140 of the normalization of the situation in areas of Kirkuk and regions withheld from Kurdstan.

في .At the beginning of the meeting, Dr. Mohammed Ihsan, Minister for areas outside the region on the transformations that have taken place in the course of the implementation of Article 140 and said : in the latest report submitted to Parliament Kurdstan I indicated that we are issuing four special resolutions First Arabs arrivals, The second was special displaced and the other was a special agricultural contracts either of the latter resolution was separated politicians.

.His Hassan said : mechanism has been put in order the return of all the Arabs to their places of arrivals and transfer cards Altmonet Incommunicable To those not in the statistics, nor in the referendum as a mechanism, and so far has been distributing a large number of forms in the offices of the arrivals Sinjar and Kirkuk and Khanaqin, As to the arrivals have been distributed more than 150 forms at those offices, and we Pantiar complete all procedures in order to start in the incoming Arab voluntarily after receipt of 20 million dinars, a plot of land.

وحول الوافدين.Regarding agricultural contracts said Mohammed Ihsan : Located in Kirkuk 5677 contract agriculturally clinched during the rule of the former regime, including (1800000) dunums of agricultural land belonging to the response and Turkmen were unjustly Akhtsabha these contracts were signed before the Arabs arrived. وهذه.These contracts require the signature of the Minister of Agriculture Iraqi order cancellation.

اما .The area of Sinjar there are 400 agricultural holding where they affirmed these contracts in accordance with the policy of Arabization and forced displacements.

وحول .Regarding the referendum Ahsan said : We are in the negotiation stage with the Iraqi Ministry of Planning to develop a mechanism for conducting the census, and our goal in conducting the census is to count the numbers of those eligible to vote and participate in the referendum.

.He continued Ihsan saying : We have collected the sources of records in 1957, records the personal identity in all regions of Kurdstan cards Altmonet and contract farming of these areas.

:It then gave Mr. Najirfan Barzani, head of the territorial government of Kurdstan a speech in which he pointed to the results of his visit to Baghdad, the most important hubs, which was discussed with the Iraqi government, saying :

من .One of the most important topics discussed during my visit to Baghdad had been the subject of the distribution of Iraq's imports and oil wealth, and asked to deposit oil imports in a special fund, to allocate quota territory directly placed in the Territory so that the central government is not putting obstacles in the way of access of financial allocations to the territory Kurdstan.

.He said the government of the territory : the amounts of surplus oil revenues not received by the Iraqi government to the territorial government, and we ask that this law across the back of the amounts of surplus oil revenues to the territory of Kurdstan.

.A Barzani expressed optimism to resolve these problems because the Finance Minister and Prime Minister are working hard to resolve these issues.

.At the center of another recent Najirfan Mr. Barzani to be Agraha amendments to the Iraqi Constitution Permanent saying : was formed a special committee for this and we as a people Kurdstan accepted to be part of Iraq on the basis of the Constitution, which Astufti by a majority of the Iraqi people. .Stressing on the need to implement Article 140 on schedule, saying : "We will not accept any delay in the implementation of this article and offered suggestions to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki on the Chairman of the Article 140 of a great approval at the earliest.

.And on the question of Peshmargas Barzani said : "We have asked in a visit to Baghdad last Ptodha political and legal definition of Bischmaraka, for this purpose the House issued the Iraqi referee s decision in the context of the Iraqi defense system and the budget must be within the budget expenditures that have been developed for the Iraqi governorates, Therefore, no purpose of the Committee in the Ministry of Peshmargas continue to meet the problem of the Iraqi government in Baghdad with a representative of the multinational forces, and these committees reached the final stages on how to define the Peshmargas.

في.At the end of his presentation head of government territory Kurdstan proposal to Parliament to ensure the formation of Kurdstan 4 committees and the oil and gas and the Commission on Article 140 and the water and dams and the territory under the authority of Iraq in order to study the amendments which were proposed on the Iraqi constitution and determine the parliament and the government of the territory around Kurdstan.

من .Members of Parliament then discussed these places with the President of the government of the Kurdstan They have many questions answered by the head of the territorial government Najirfan Mr. Barzani.

.At the end of the presentation of the Speaker's proposal the prime minister to members of the vote and was approved unanimously.

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ICEM Supports IFOU in Today’s Oil Industry Strike in Basra
Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2007-06-05 10:24. Nonviolent Resistance
Posted on the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions website (icem.org)...

At 6:30 AM this morning, 4 June 2007, oil workers struck the pipeline company in Basra, Iraq, bringing an immediate stop to the free flow of oil products, including kerosene an gas through pipe number 42.

The pipe transfers oil and gas to Baghdad and the governorates of the central region of the country. The workers are members of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU).

The IFOU, previously known as the GUOE-Basra, and led by President Hassan Jumaa Awad Alasady, has over 26,000 members throughout the ten state oil companies operating in the south of Iraq. The union has a past history of strike action in defense of its members, and the oil industry as a whole of southern Iraq.

The ICEM, the global union federation of national energy unions throughout the world, supports the IFOU in their strike action today.

Earlier strike calls in May were postponed after the union gained a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki. That meeting, on 16 May, resulted in the creation of
a committee tasked with working on finding solutions acceptable to both sides. The ICEM understands that although several of the union demands have been fully agreed to by Iraqi authorities, the IFOU is still far from having all their demands fulfilled. This is what led to today’s strike.

The union is currently focussing on two core demands in its strike at the pipeline company:

• They demand that the Oil Ministry take action to force the general manager of the pipeline company to resign; and
• They demand that the company be financially and administratively independent from the Baghdad-based central ministry, and that the pipeline company be managed locally.

ICEM is informed that the reason for the first demand, and the catalyst for today’s action, is that the general manger of the pipeline company, Adel Aziz, who is based in Baghdad rather than in Basra, blocked the orders of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Mailiki to release delayed benefits due workers. Moreover, he stopped a Iraqi Dinar (IQD)50,000 allowance which the workers are regularly entitled to.

The background is available here.

A second phase of the strike has been threatened to begin tomorrow morning, again at 6.30 AM, in the event the IFOU does not receive signs signalling compliance with their demands. The second phase would expand the strike by closing pipeline number 48, which feeds the southern governorates with oil products.

ICEM, together with the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), US Solidarity Center, and the UK’s Trades Union Congress (TUC) of the UK is following developments closely, and will keep trade union affiliates and the public fully informed on developments in this key dispute.

I just don't get this, why do this, it only delays or causes their suffering to continue economically

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